December 2009
2 posts
ruby 1.9 and unicode strings
I was playing around with some unicode strings to test string handling in Ruby 1.9, and realized a couple of things. Unicode string handling in 1.9 is fairly basic. For instance, the upcase method of a string, only knows how to handle letters from A to Z. I realized this when I was trying to run upcase on a string containing my name (Helge André Gudmundsen), and the resulting string was...
peepcode - bad name, excellent content
I do not like the name of the company, but their content is top notch. Peepcode offer technical screencasts, and although you would think that one hour is little time, the material covered is extensive. $9 for each episode is cheap given the material covered, and there are also bundles and subscriptions making the per-episode-price even lower.